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Education
Master of Fine Arts in Art Direction,
Pratt Institute, New York, NY (2009)Bachelor of Fine Arts & Photography,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York (2006)
Accolades
2024
PS 180 Public Schools Art Mural
2022
Governor’s Island Ice Sculpture Fest
Rockefeller Center & Climate Museum ‘“Flag Project’’
2021
New York City Artist Corps Artist
2017
Bronx TV ‘’Bronx Artist Show’’ with Daniel Hauben
2015
BronxNet Television Artist Interview
2014
Bronx Artist Documentary Project Book
Good Trade Book
2013
Bronx Artist Day Proclamation with Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.
2011
Indian Arts & Crafts Association Member-Artist
2010
New York Daily News Write-up ‘’Never give up your Roots‘’
Residences
2024
C.A.L.L., NYC
Culture Hub, NYC
VoM III & Residence Unlimited, NYC
2023
NYC Bird Society Artist Residency
The Art center in Orange, Madison, VA
IPark, Lyme, Connecticut
Ma’s House Shinnecock Indigenous Reservation
2021
Ucross Foundation Native American Artist Residency
Stonehenge Artist Residency
FABNYC/ LES History Project
San Antonio Jumpstart Artist Residency
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey Residency
2020
Surf Point Foundation
2019
Guttenberg Art Center
2017
SpaceWorks (The Bronx Father Project), Bronx, NY
2016
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens, NY
Wave Hill Artist Residence, Riverdale, NY
The Kelly Street Residence with the Laundromat Project
2015
Ace Hotel Artist Residence
2014
The Laundromat Project, Bronx, NY
2013
Brooklyn Friends School, Brooklyn, NY
Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland
2012
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics’ EMERGENYC
2009
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2008
International Center of Photography NY Hall Farms Artist Fellowship & Residence
Artist Talks & Panels
2024
Montclair University Art Department
Tompkins Square Cultural Arts Center
2023
NYC Advocacy for the Arts
2022
Calabar Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Artist Kwanzaa Kush Art Talk, Culture Push Inc. / Black Utopian Fellowship
East Coast Native American Artist Today, NY Queens Museum of the Arts
NYU (LES Black History of 1900s) FABNYC Young Artist Discussion
2019
Drawing Center NYC Bronx Arts Space " Bronx Native Artist" Clifford Chance Lawyers
Minority Corporate Counsel Associate / Artist Talk
2016
Speak Out Artist Talk, Bronx Arts Space
2015
Shifting Sands New Dynamics in the Bronx Art Scene, Hosted by No Longer Empty
Emerging Leaders of New York Arts Creative Conversation at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Lab
New School Social Science class Artist Q&A with the Laundromat Project at the Kelly Street Garden
2013
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx Artist Talk
Grants and Awards
2024
MAP NYC Microgram
Bronx Artist Technology Grant
2022
LMCC Community Art Engagement Award
2021
Bronx Council on the Arts (Photography Award)
The Laundromat Project Creative Action Fund
2020
Puff Foundation
2019
BRIO (Fine Art)
Rema Hort Mann Foundation (RHMF)
2018
Artist Community Engagement Grantees in NYC
2016
Artist Fund Grant NY
2015
Citizens Committee for NYC Grant
2014
BCA Community Artist Grant
2010-2014
Bronx Museum, Artists in the Marketplace
2010-2011
BRIO (the Bronx Recognizes Its Own)
2009
Change Inc. Grant
2007
Bronx Council on the Arts Fellowship, Art Handler
2005
International Center of Photography Fellowship
2001
Mark Rothko Fellowship With the MoMA Scholarship Award
1999
Price Waterhouse Award
Fellowships
2024
VoM III Resident Unlimited Fellowship
2024 NYC Artist Advocacy Fellowship
2021
Enfoco Photography Fellowship
San Antonio Jump-Start Performance Co. Artist fellowship
Culture Push 2021 Black Utopian Fellowship
FABNYC /Black and Indigenous Lower East Side History Fellowship
UCross Foundation Native American Fellowship
Works On Water / Tending the Edge Artist Fellowship
Ankhlave Garden Fellowship/ Queens botanical garden sculpture project
Public and Private Collections
MTA Artist Poster Collection
Tompkins Square Cultural Center
The New York Women Foundation with the Bronx Museum of the Arts
Art Politics Magazine
Mayor’s Office of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Allentown Native American Museum, Pennsylvania
Three Rivers Council American Indian Museum, Pennsylvania
Public Artwork
2024
PS 180 Public schools Art Mural
DOT Bronx, NY, Jennings Street Mural
“Umbrellas “ Flatbush Junction Bid
2023
Art Bridge, NYC 223 Street Bronx NY
2022
Amtrak Penn Station NYC Patchwork Travelers, Curated by Debra Simon of Common Ground Arts
Governor’s Island Ice Sculpture Show, Presented with LMCC.
Rockefeller Center Flag Project’s Third Annual Iteration; Rockefeller Center collaborated with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Climate Museum
Art Bridge, 213 & 214 Street Public Art Work, Bronx, NY
Drawing Room, Five Corners Library, Newark, NJ
CUNA Mutual Group Artist Commission Family and friends, Madison, WI
Workshops, Community Engagement,
Cultural and Environmental Programs
2024
The C.A.L.L
Governor’s Island / VoM lll
Bronx Children's Museum.
The Art Mobile
Mason Gross School of the Arts
Rutgers University
Bronx River Garden
Kelly Street Garden
Corporate Arts Programs - Includes collaborations with Godiva, Gouache Paints Co. & Codax Works.
Queens Museum and Bronx Museum of the Arts. C.A.S.E.S.
Selected Group and Solo Exhibitions
2024
“Survival & Thriving” VoM III, NY
“Junction” Mason Grove/Rutgers University
Tompkins Square Cultural Arts Center
“Unwanted” Columbia University NYC
“Made Visible: Origins of Belonging “ Wabi Gallery, CT
“Uncontained: Reimagining Basketry” Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2023
“The Voice of Many, The Voice of One: Collective Actions for Resistance and Mutual Aid” The Clemente, NYC
New York Birds Society Artists Exhibit
West Harlem Art Fund “Winter Exhibition — Curb Appeal on Governor’s Island
2022
OUTCROPPING / Indigenous Art Now Southampton Art Center NY, Curated by Jeremy Dennis
Protest Signs
From the Inside Out Exhibition, Somerville Arts Council, MA
Brooklyn Utopias at the Old Stone House Outdoor Exhibition
2021
"C/O Commonwealth", Penn State University
Art on the Ave NYC Grand Central Station
Land Markings Old Stone House
"The Gathering", Creative Time/ Red Stage Performances
2019
Survivance and Sovereignty on Turtle Island, KHC Queensborough College, Curated by Katherine Griefen & Danyelle Means
Urban Indians; Native New York Now, Museum of the City of New York, Curated by Rebecca Hayes & Jason Lujan
'What's Love got to do with it " Drawing Center NYC, Curated by Lisa Sigal & Rosario Guiraldes
ArtConnectionNY, Art Fair, New York, Curated by Alexandra Wagle
Foreign/Familiar: Immigrants in the Bronx, Longwood Art Gallery, Curated by Julia Pimes Mata, Bryan E Glover, Alex Lappin
Race and Revolution, Smack Mellon, Curated by Kathy Fuller & Larry Ossei-Mensah
2018
Open Session 13 Artist, Drawing Center NYC
2017
Resistance After Nature; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Haverford College, Curated by Dylan Gauthier
Solo Show at Clifford Chance NYC Law Firm, Curated by Jacob Robichaux
Lesson Learned, St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by Che Baraka
2016
Affordable Art Fair New York, Curated by Ayesha Williams
Bronx Africa, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, Curated by LeRonn P. Brooks
Speak Out, Bronx Arts Space, Bronx, NY
Coney Island Boardwalk, Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by Maria Roberts
Bronx Botanicals, The Point Campus, Bronx ,NY, Curated by Carrie Clark
2015
Two Fold Artist –Teacher Dedalus Foundation Brooklyn NY. Curated by Cecile Chong
To Forgive and Remember, Judaica Museum, Riverdale, NY, Curated by Susan Chevlowe
People, Power & Protest SkyLight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY ,Curated by Daniel Simmons & Oshun Layne
RECALLed, AIOP Art in odd places, New York, NY, Curated by Sara Reisman & Kendal Henry
Peoples Protest, Metropolitan College of NY, Bronx, NY, Curated by Natasha R. Johnson
After Afropolitan Weeksville Heritage Center, Curated by Desiree Gordon & Aisha bellCaldwell
2014
Trade Blanket/ Manta DeIntercambio Bronx, NY, Casita Maria for the Arts Curated by Christine Licata
The Other/Underside Bronx Arts Space Bronx ,NY, Curated by Linda Cunningham
Hands Up, Down Shoot, St. Louis University Museum of Art, Curated by Freida L .Wheaton
I KAN-DO DAT, Skylight Gallery Brooklyn, NY, Curated By Daniel Simmons & Oshun Layne
Main Land_MIX The New Museum NYC, Curated by Leenda Bonilla Pagan
2013
Curate NYC Top 150 Entries Artist Rush Art Gallery, NYC, Native American Edition Bronx Museum of the Arts NYC
Harlem Art Factory Fest Chashama NYC Bronx Arts Space, Bronx, NY
Degree of Privacy Forward Flux Theater Lab, NYC Art with a Purpose, Rush Art Gallery NYC
I’ll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, ABC No Rio Gallery, NYC, Curated By Jason Luna
Dimensions Variable Multiracial Identity, Rush Arts Gallery, NYC, Curated By Gabriel de Guzman
2012
Wreath Interpretations The Arsenal Gallery, NY
The Festival of First People Howland Cultural Center Beacon, NY
AiOP Art in Odd Places NYC Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics’ EMERGENYC
Art Auction Benefiting Habitat for Humanity of Washington, DC and honoring Peggy Cooper Cafritz
2011
Wave Hill /Bronx Museum “Bronx Calling”
The first Biennial Bronx Skate park Exhibit Public Art Project “Mapping Skate Parks’’ Traveling Exhibit, “Land-fill Art”
2010
The Millbrook Gallery, New Hampshire, “Native American Artists in the Northeast”
2009
Longwood Art Gallery, New York, “ANTHEM: An All-American Dystopia” Queens Museum
of Art, New York, “Image of Death” Ulster Community College Gallery, New York, “FOOD”
2008
St. Lawrence County Arts Council, New York, “Arts for Healing Art Show” Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania, “Unheard Voices”
2007
Manhattan Borough President’s Office Art Show, New York
2006
The Point Gallery, New York, “The Love and Fear Experience”
2005
“Clotheslines” The Point Gallery, New York
“Urban Life” Design School Gallery, New York
Bronx Academy for Art and Dance ( BAAD), New York, “Blacktino”
2004
NAACP - Actso Arts Winner NYC / Maryland / Ohio Manhattan Borough Presidents Office, NYC
2001
4W Circle of Art and Enterprise, New York,
“In the Eyes of ” 2000 West Side Arts Coalition, NYC
1999
“People and Fashion”, ICP Gallery, New York